10 Years

I was in the computing field sense 1968. First operations then programming. I loved programming and design. There were times, mostly during development of a large mainframe system, that I couldn't wait to get to work the next day. Then others, like you said, that were pretty boring. Being in IT today is not at all the same as it used to be as you well know. But if you still like to program but just want to spice it up you may consider contracting. Now that is a bad word in some shops I know but if you get with a good placement company there could potentially be work almost anywhere you want to go. Of course if you have a family that is different. I am retired. When I look back on it there were times, mostly during a very stressful project, that truck driving look pretty good to me. HA! Being out on the open road with firm expectations seemed pretty good. I am sure you know what I mean. Most people that get out of this kind of work however move to something completely different. I knew one guy that became and engineer on the railroad and was very happy he made the change. As with anything else this is a personal thing. What are your interests, are you willing to trains for something else. You say related fields? Not sure what that would be. Are you in mainframe or pc computing? Is programming the problem or just what you are doing right now? Lot's of questions to ask yourself before jumping out of what you have spent 10 years at.

Congratulations. This is year is just my 9th year as a programmer :). I also encountered that problem. I also often got bored. My friends (also programmers) suggested that I should take a break, maybe a month or two. Just to free myself from doing any software. Maybe I should try that one after I finished existing projects. Maybe you should try that also.

I have been working on MYSQL And PHP for 3 months or over, back 3 months then i didnt know anything about MYSQL or PHP it all started like this, i wanted to create an site for mobile phones and i asked one of my freinds they had an site about mobile phones too so i asked them how did the create it he told me he created it throgh PHPnuke i did not know what is phpnuke i jsut knew about phpbb so i asked him what is that he told me the homepage i started isntalling it i had problems on how to installing it for about 4 - 5 days then he told me you have to import the mysql file in phpnuke so i done that then it worked then i was basically asking him about phpnuke controls and all that so he told me, then slowly slowly i got the hang of it and then i was installing some mods for my forum and i had to edit some PHP files so i mananged to that then i really knew about PHP now i am very experienced with PHP and MYSQL but still not an professional but i am willing to do a course with the PHP and MYSQL programming.